"Qi Qi Xiao Jieshuai, the troops surrounding Yinzhou City have already set up a formation. As for the large siege equipment, half of them were also escorted to the border villages of Mizhi, Nuanquan and Qingbian, and the commanders only stayed in the local area to obey the orders before the order. ”

At this time, Wang Jin urged the horse to Xiao Tang's side and reported to him. Although the two of them have a deep relationship with each other, when Wang Jin and Xiao Tang discussed military discussions in the army, they were straightforward, and they would not lose their military courtesy to Xiao Tang because of their friendship.

Although Xiao Tang gathered several forbidden army units on standby in Suide Prefecture this time and suddenly approached Yinzhou City, there were only a few simple siege equipment and stone throwing equipment such as cloud ladders, bamboo flying ladders, and whirlwind cannons among the besieging army, as for the tiptoe flying ladders, overpasses, overhead cranes, watchtower cars, and even heavy siege ordnance such as double-pinned cannons, five-pinned cannons, and seven-pinned cannons, they were not escorted with the army, after all, now entering the territory of the Xia Kingdom, in addition to the necessary baggage rations, if the siege equipment had to be transported, it would inevitably seriously slow down the mobility of the Song army.

Xiao Tang stared at the city gate on the east side of Yinzhou City, which was surrounded by water, he knew that as long as he gave an order, thousands of soldiers would turn into countless ants and rush up to gnaw at that city, maybe in just a moment's effort, there would be countless living men who would become dead corpses lying in a pool of blood. It is true that sometimes victory on the battlefield can only be filled with human lives, and even generals who are sympathetic to their soldiers will be driven to sacrifice their lives one after another because of some purpose that must be achieved in war, but it is not yet that time.

"Pass the order, after the three armies pile up earth to build a wall and drive piles to build a camp, send men and horses to take turns to disturb the enemy every day, and cover the head of the city with strong crossbowmen, but must not attack forcibly."

Xiao Tang gave the order, and when he saw Wang Jin's respectful expression, he shook his head and said, "Sect Leader Wang, you and I are also old acquaintances, so you don't have to be so restrained...... Now that the formation has been formed, we are just waiting for the movement of other soldiers and horses in the Xia Kingdom. ”

Wang Jin groaned slightly, and then said: "Guan Zhong is erudite and talented, and he is very good at studying and deliberating the geography and terrain of all parts of the world, after he and Xiao Jieshuai went to the side court, I did not hear that he watched the map of the mountains and rivers of the Song and Xia border courts, and the maps of the passes, where to ambush, and where to cover up and kill the army have also been marked one by one. What's more, the strategy he offered to the commander was a plan to exhaust the enemy, to attack the enemy, and to repeatedly deduct it to destroy the enemy's momentum. ”

Xiao Tang also nodded when he heard this, but he changed the conversation again, and said leisurely: "Now that Wang Jiaotou is in an important position in the Jingnan Army, he is engaged in the side court, and he finally does not bury what he has learned all his life. I just remembered that I had the first meeting with Wang Jiaotou at the Bianjing Forbidden Military Academy, and the past was like yesterday, waiting for the Song and Xia wars, and after Wang Jiaotou made contributions in the border court, I also looked forward to returning to Xiaojiaji's hometown with Wang Jiaotou to revisit, and when the teacher saw the head of the sect and fulfilled his wish, I would be very pleased. ”

The respectful and serious Wang Jin finally showed a smile when he heard Xiao Tang say, and said with emotion: "Wei Jiang is also a general mind, and I am also looking forward to the day when I can reunite with old friends such as Zhou seniors over there in Xiao Jiaji......"

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Seven or eight days after Xiao Tang led the Song army on the eastern front to Yinzhou City, Xiazhou, Shizhou, Dejing Town, Shenduiyi and other prefectures and towns in the eastern part of the Xia Kingdom also learned the news of the enemy's heavy attack. After all, Yinzhou is also a strategic place on the front line of the Song and Xia, so the main generals of the Xia army in various places also immediately mobilized their troops and galloped to the aid of Yinzhou City in the starry night to outflank the Song army's rear road from the rear.

The Xia Junxiao sent from Dejing Town, north of the Wuding River, gathered 15,000 soldiers and horses from the surrounding military towns and hurried to the riverbank, waiting for the scouts to cross the river to search first, and send a signal to the headquarters on the other side of the river. As soon as the generals of the Xia army, who were eager to help, saw that there was no ambush near the left side of the opposite bank, they thought that the Song army was attacking Yinzhou with all their might, and had not arranged soldiers and horses for the main road here, so they immediately ordered to build a pontoon bridge to cross the river, and rushed to the front and crossed the river bank first.

However, when about half of the men and horses had just crossed the river, the soldiers and horses of the Xia army heard a loud sound that seemed to be a thousand troops and horses galloping in the upper reaches of the river valley, and the huge waves were immediately wrapped in countless gravel rows and rows of wood surging under the impact of the torrent, and in an instant, the Xia people and horses who were crossing the river were cut in half!

Xia Guoguan, who had already crossed the river, was dumbfounded, and several pontoon bridges that had been built had already been smashed by the gravel logs that were wrapped in the torrent waves, and countless Xia Guojun Jian who had crossed the river also fell into the river one after another, and they were washed away in an instant.

The Xia army, which had not yet crossed the river, found that in the valley far away on the other side of the river, it suddenly collided with countless Song troops and killed their own soldiers and horses who crossed the estuary. Before the soldiers and horses of the Xia army who crossed the river bank had time to react, thousands of sharp wolf's tooth arrows shot out in an instant, emitting a piercing scream in mid-air, and then swept across the sky, pouring down towards the Xia soldiers like a waterfall!

When the rain of wolf teeth and arrows smashed into the unprepared Xia Guojun formation, the sharp arrow clusters penetrated from the bodies of countless Xia Guojun Jian, and at the same time, the red dripping on the arrow clusters at the same time, round after round of arrow rain poured from the sky, and a large number of Xia Guojun Jian were like wheat being cut down in the autumn harvest season, one by one by one arrows, falling to the ground, and dying! Nearly a thousand corpses of Xia soldiers soon appeared on the south bank of the Wuding River, and many others fell in pools of blood and howled for help.

The general who commanded the Xia army was also strong, although a sharp arrow pierced his shoulder and knocked him off the horse, and the red blood was spilling down the wound, but he forcibly pulled out the arrow cluster through the pain. Although this time it can be regarded as the enemy's way, there are still five or six thousand soldiers and horses of the Xia State who crossed the river, and they still have the strength to fight with the Song army. The Xia army galloped to Yinzhou City in two ways, and the army echoed each other to form a pincer attack, and the Song army had to attack the city and guard against the enemy army who came to outflank the rear, how many soldiers and horses could be available?

Just as the general of the Xia army pulled out the steel knife at his waist, ordered the crossbowmen to quickly return fire at the Song army, and ordered the rest of the infantry army to prepare for a battle to the death, he suddenly heard the sound of a desolate horn sounding in a deep voice, and the general of the Xia army immediately felt that the ground under his feet seemed to tremble slightly.

There are countless black dots on the other side of the horizon to show their figures, they are like a piece of dark clouds rolling in, the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom who had crossed the river bank were overjoyed when they saw the armored cavalry, and even the men and horses were almost wrapped in iron armor, but then they thought of the iron harrier heavy cavalry of other military divisions, when was they dispatched here?

When a fiery red Great Song Army flag was erected in the heavy cavalry troops, the soldiers of the Xia Army suddenly changed color! At this time, hundreds of heavy-armored iron horsemen in the forefront had already raised their sharp cavalry spears and began to charge at the Xia army crossing the river, and the iron hooves wrapped in linen made a dull rumbling sound on the ground, as if they were trampled on the hearts of the Xia army's soldiers and horses, and taught them to shudder!

The sound of the heavy war horse snort became more and more clear and audible, and the steel torrent rolled up by the heavy armored iron cavalry roared, as if a giant hammer smashed into the loose military formation of the Xia army, the dull impact sound and the terrible howl immediately sounded together, under the galloping of the chain horse cavalry wrapped in iron armor, countless foot soldiers were knocked away in an instant, and the horse spears and sabers in the hands of the horse heavy cavalry also swept towards the panicked Xia soldiers. Stumps flying!

However, the soldiers and horses of the Xia army, who had not yet crossed the river, could only watch the Song army's iron cavalry on the opposite bank rampaging through their own army formation, and gradually evolved into a one-sided massacre.